Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“We, mankind, contain the possibilities of the earth's immense future, and can realise more and more of them on condition that we… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . .… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Humanity has been sleeping-and still sleeps-lulled within the narrowly confining joys of its little closed loves. In the depths of the human… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“We, mankind, contain the possibilities of the earth's immense future, and can realise more and more of them on condition that we increase our… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“In the shadow of death may we not look back to the past, but seek in utter darkness the dawn of God.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
It is not our heads or our bodies which we must bring together, but our hearts. . . . Humanity. . . is building… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image